Villeret Extra Plano 38

The aesthetic language introduced across Villeret last autumn now reaches the 38 mm case. The Roman numerals, resized for balance, are solid 18 ct gold satin-finished upper surfaces with polished bevels on the edges. The traditional XII gives way to the JB monogram, for Jehan-Jacques Blancpain. Slender hands carry Super-LumiNova® for readability after dark. At three o’clock, a larger date window. Through the sapphire case back, an open-worked oscillating weight in red gold (on red gold models) or yellow gold (on steel models) reveals the automatic manufacture Caliber 1150 and its 100-hour power reserve. For the first time, Villeret wears salmon. A sunburst dial whose warmth shifts through the day between copper, rose and gold, it is set in stainless steel, restraint, and warmth in the same timepiece. Its 18 ct gold numerals are treated in a new black finish and echoed by an anthracite nubuck strap. On a collection whose vocabulary runs to opaline and silvered tones, salmon is an event: not a flourish, but a new word in a familiar language. Those who prefer the quieter register will find it in the gold-toned opaline dial alongside it.